Notes on Advisory-Pathways courses

Meeting Notes
April 20, 2011
8-12 Starbucks
Pathway Classes
9th Grade
Fall Semester
English Essentials- 5 week course
- Grammar

• 8 Parts of Speech
• Sentence functions: Subjects, Predicate (Verbs), Objects
• Phrases, Clauses and 4 types of Sentences
• Sentence diagraming

Math Essentials- 5 week
- Math Diagnosis
- Basic Functions

• Multiple
• Division
• Long Division

- Fractions

• Addition and subtraction
• Multiplication and Division
• Ratios

Study Skills- 5 week
- Personality types
- Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens

• Organizational Skills
  • Planning (using calendar
  • Binder
• Goal Planning
  • Long Term
  • Short Term

- Note taking

• Cornell Notes
• Outlining
• Summary

Active Reading
- Summarization
- Paraphrasing
- Vocabulary Development
Reading Comprehension
Questioning Skills
Spring Semester
Wheel 1
Math Intervention/ CST Prep- 10 weeks
English Intervention/ CST Prep- 10 weeks
Reading Comprehension
Vocabulary Development
Writing Skills
Wheel 2
Career Pathways- 10 weeks
- Introduction to Education- 5 weeks

• Salary Scale
• Level of teachers (pre-school- college)
• Out of classroom positions (counselors, deans, admin)
• Educational requirements, licensing, testing (CBEST, CLAD, Bachelors, etc.)
• Career Portfolio part 1

- Introduction to Human Services

• Salary Scale
• Types of careers (social work, marriage and family therapy, therapist, psychologist)
• Educational requirements, licenses, degrees, testing
• Career Portfolio part 2

Computer Literacy- 10 weeks
- Word
- Powerpoint
- Excel
- Internet Research
10th grade
Fall Semester- first 10 weeks
Math CAHSEE Prep- 5 week
English CAHSEE Prep- 5 week
- CAHSEE review- going through the basics
- Focused/differentiated skill groups

• Grammar essentials
• Reading comprehension
• Essay Writing

Fall Semester 2nd 10 weeks
Wheel 1 (Math or English)- 10 weeks
Study Skills- (could not pass CAHSEE pre-test)
- Individualized Assessment based on CAHSEE prep class
- Organizational skills
- Reciprocal teaching using CAHSEE test questions
- Socratic Seminars
Wheel 2- Community Involvement (Service Learning Project) – 10 weeks
Based on a career pathway, examples include:

• Child Abuse prevention
• Operation Smile Train
• Sister Schools
• Environmental projects

Spring Semester
Mixed CST/ Intervention (Math or English)
- Students who need intervention will enter the mixed intervention class with 10, 11 12

• Study Skills
• Math
• English
  • Novel- reading comprehension
  • Decoding Skills
  • Vocabulary Development
  • Parts of Speech (Mad Libs)
  • Grammar, sentence fluency
  • Informational Text- reading Comprehension

Math/Science Project – 10 weeks- Using Community Partners
- Solar Panel
- Roller Coaster Project
- Build a project
- Egg project
English/History Project- 10 weeks
- Current Event
- Genocide of the 20th Century
- Millennium Development Goal’s
- Model UN
- Poetry Book
- Photography project
Project presentation- Project Fair/Competition- awards given for best projects, presented to the public, parents, students, etc.
11th grade
Fall Semester
Wheel 1- Enrollment as needed
Mixed CST/ Intervention (Math or English)
- Students who need intervention will enter the mixed intervention class with 10, 11 12
Wheel 2-
Computer Project- 10 weeks
- Recruitment Video
- School Pamphlet
SAT Prep- 10 weeks
Spring Semester
College/ Career Research- 10 weeks
- A-G requirements
- Majors
- UC/ Cal States/ Privates/ JC
- My Roads
Project Citizen/ Service Learning Project- 10 week
12th grade
Fall Semester
Senior Seminar 1 – 20 weeks
- College Applications
- FAFSA Forms
- Personal Statement
- Recommendations
- College Survival Skills
- Scholarships
- Portfolio
Spring Semester
Senior Seminar 2- 20 weeks
- Resumes, cover letters and Job Applications
- Portfolio development and presentation
- Financial Literacy

• Balancing Checkbooks
• Budgeting

Common Pathways Curriculum-
Portfolio-

1. Grades
   1. Every 5 weeks- students discuss grades and reflect
      1. Look at your grades, what is good bad
      2. What are your goals
      3. How do they plan on achieving goal.
      4. Work
         1. Semester work, 1 assignment and reflection per academic class

Student led conferences-
Students share binder/ portfolio for each class and discuss work
Academic Binder/Notebook
- Notebook for each class
Common strategies:
- Dialectal Journals
- Note taking System: Cornell Notes
- Rubrics
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